Issues

• Add Speaker Diarization (Speaker Turn Attribution) to SpeechRecognition

  WebAudio/web-speech-api#226 · Filter by author alan33d opened on Oct 27, 2026
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• SpeechSynthesis instance should be target of speech events

  WebAudio/web-speech-api#225 · Filter by author eeejay opened on Oct 26, 2026

• There is no indication on the SpeechSynthesisUtterance instance that it is queued.

  WebAudio/web-speech-api#224 · Filter by author eeejay opened on Oct 26, 2026

• SpeechSynthesis should be constructable

  WebAudio/web-speech-api#223 · Filter by author eeejay opened on Oct 26, 2026

• SpeechSynthesisVoice should advertise what SSML subset it supports.

  WebAudio/web-speech-api#222 · Filter by author eeejay opened on Oct 26, 2026

• SpeechSynthesisVoice should advertise what events it supports.

  WebAudio/web-speech-api#221 · Filter by author eeejay opened on Oct 26, 2026

• getVoices() or equivalent should return a promise

  WebAudio/web-speech-api#220 · Filter by author eeejay opened on Oct 26, 2026

• SSML support should be further aligned across browsers.

  WebAudio/web-speech-api#219 · Filter by author eeejay opened on Oct 26, 2026

• API has a large fingerprinting surface, and is a privacy concern

  WebAudio/web-speech-api#218 · Filter by author eeejay opened on Oct 26, 2026

• The timestamp of various events is under-specified, and not implemented per spec in shipped implementations

  WebAudio/web-speech-api#213 · Filter by author padenot opened on Sep 16, 2026
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• Falling back to the document language isn't precise

  WebAudio/web-speech-api#211 · Filter by author padenot opened on Sep 8, 2026
  

• What happens if the language isn't specified when using SpeechRecognition, and how to recognized multiple languages

  i18n-tracker
  WebAudio/web-speech-api#208 · Filter by author padenot opened on Sep 1, 2026
  

• SpeechRecognition.start() (microphone version) should require policy

  WebAudio/web-speech-api#207 · Filter by author padenot opened on Sep 1, 2026
  

• SpeechRecognition install/available: activation requirements

  WebAudio/web-speech-api#202 · Filter by author padenot opened on Aug 11, 2026

• Tighten the availablity algorithm prose

  WebAudio/web-speech-api#198 · Filter by author padenot opened on Jul 30, 2026

• Several questions about duplicates in .phrases?

  WebAudio/web-speech-api#184 · Filter by author bkardell opened on Jan 27, 2026
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• What does non-continuous recognition means for an implementationt that is only local

  WebAudio/web-speech-api#176 · Filter by author padenot opened on Dec 16, 2025
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• Work needed on the "Start session algorithm"

  WebAudio/web-speech-api#175 · Filter by author padenot opened on Dec 5, 2025

• install() function should support the monitor option to report on language pack download progress

  WebAudio/web-speech-api#173 · Filter by author tomayac opened on Oct 28, 2025

• Are modifications to phrases to be dynamically reflected in the backend, or are the phrases sent over to the underlying recognition engine on start()

  WebAudio/web-speech-api#172 · Filter by author padenot opened on Sep 18, 2025

• Should Speechrecognition.start() recommend user activation?

  WebAudio/web-speech-api#162 · Filter by author youennf opened on Jun 2, 2025
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• Can we customize the microphone timeout for web speech api

  WebAudio/web-speech-api#137 · Filter by author janaki112 opened on Jan 28, 2025
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• Web speech Api - Microphone is turning off as soon as speech end event is being triggered in chrome browser in android device

  WebAudio/web-speech-api#136 · Filter by author janaki112 opened on Jan 28, 2025

• Consider redesigning the Web Speech API with Promises & ReadableStreams

  WebAudio/web-speech-api#130 · Filter by author evanbliu opened on Jan 9, 2025
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• FR: getVoices options bag

  WebAudio/web-speech-api#116 · Filter by author hemanth opened on Oct 5, 2024